Annie Get Your Gun

Big day tomorrow for Anne Bulford, OBE, the BBC's Managing Director of Operations and Finance - the BBC's Annual Report is out, and with Zarin Patel and Caroline Thomson gone, she'll have to sit alongside Tony Hall and explain things.

Tony gave a hint of big changes to come on her patch, when he told the Public Accounts Committee last week that he'd discovered "fifty-five separate boards and committees looking at operations and back office functions". In the past it has been possible to build whole BBC careers on attending meetings which make no decisions; imagine if you had membership, say, of just ten, and they met monthly. Take a day to read in, a day to attend, a couple of leadership briefings, a divisional workshop or two, some sessions on "Lean" projects, a little light business risk and continuity thinking, Fridays working from home - and, bingo, £150k+ a year is yours.

I wonder if the report will publish the full governance structure and meeting membership running DMI...